feather plucking

Hello, I have an 11 year old Parrotlet who began overplucking her feathers around November of 2023, and its only gotten worse since. The top reasons we saw when we looked it up were stress or malnutrition, so we put her mainly on pellets and only gave her seed every two days or so. She lived...

Hi. My magnificent and otherwise happy CAG Alexander began plucking at age 20. I read through a lot of possibilities and some bathroom work/renovation meant he was no longer on the shower rail to (perhaps?) have the steam soften feathers with the family. We went back to that and tried misting...

So my sun baby's parents plucked its feathers. Will they grow back? its age is around 40 days.

For about the past 3 days I’ve noticed his chest feathers looking a little ruffled and didn’t think much of it as my other birds are currently molting, but it’s gotten a lot worse looking. I fear he may be plucking feathers but I don’t know why as nothing has changed from the time i’ve had him...

Hi, I have an 8 year old peach-faced lovebird who has a feather-plucking habit that started suddenly when he was 1. We took him to the vet and she said that it's not anything medical but rather he was hormonal and without a mate, he was sexually frustrated and therefore resorted to plucking. She...

Hi guys/gals, :rainbow1: I have a lovebird that is about a year old and he's just started plucking his right wing feathers to a point that the bald patch is half of his right wing & part of his lower neck. We've brought him to the vet and they've said that it's definitely not mites & probably a...

Hi, My beautiful Peanut has lately been picking her feathers under her wings, legs and and vent. She's always preening and seems irritated and I want her to feel better :( I thought she was just moulting because she had lots of pins, but I examined the cage floor and she seems to be pulling out...

Hi folks. I'm wondering if anybody knows of an African Grey who was a chronic feather picker until given a companion of the opposite sex. I've had my 33-year old female CAG "Junior" since she was hatched, and she's been either picking or shredding her feathers for almost 30 years. According to...

My 10 month old Green Cheek Conure has started to pluck his feathers. It literally happened out of nowhere, a few days ago he was fine then one morning he woke up and he had pulled out all his chest feathers - and now he's started on his back. Im not exactly sure what to do - I let him out...

Hey all, I hope someone can shed some light on Yoda, my CAG. He is 14 years old and I have had him since he was just a baby and hand fed him myself. He has always been a sweet sociable little guy and has lots of play time, toys, and things to keep him busy throughout the day. He also has a...

Hi everyone. Im just looking for a second opinions on my indian ringnecks problems. Recently we took Leo to the vet as he was pulling his feathers out and we thought it was mites. The vet told us it wasnt mites and that he has strained kidneys and that his gland was blocked from a build up for...

Hey, my Conure Kiwi looks like he's feather plucking, but I didn't know if he was feather plucking or not. I went online and did research, it seems like he's just molting and he sometimes will pull some feathers out by accident or that's just part of his preening activities. Anyways, I decided I...

Hello everyone. Some of you may remember me from the conure or parakeet forums. Looks like as of last week, I am in the parrotlet forums too. My house just became an aviary @@; Lily (parrotlet) was an old bird of mine. However, due to unfortunate circumstances while I was in college, I had to...

Hello! My Pearly Conure Lucky is constantly chewing on his tail. Whenever he is in his cage, if he isn't playing, eating or drinking he's chewing on his tail feathers. At first, i thought it was just a little accident he may have had when i wasn't looking but over time it has evolved into...

Hello all, This is my first time posting here so i hope i dont mess up :S I have owned many budgies in the past and have loved every one of them. However, now i would like to buy a bigger bird as i think i am ready. I have been looking at either a Quaker or an Indian ringneck. I would like to...

My heart keeps breaking over and over. Jimmy has been mutilating for 3 months now, and Beau who has been sick since October, has a small wound started in the same spot as Jimmy's now! (under wing, above right leg if anyone knows what that might correlate to) They test negative in all the tests...

Hey, so I'm new to this site. I have a male quaker parrot, we don't know how old he is, but we know he's a baby. He was found in the south valley of New Mexico about a year ago by a friend of my brother's who posted about him on Instagram. We agreed to take him and when we got there, we...

Hi All, An exciting new study has revealed that healthy parrots prefer working for their food to eating from a bowl. Parrots involved in feather-plucking, however, go right to their bowls and show no interest in solving problems that led to food rewards. I think this research is important to...

Hi All, Feather plucking (and other forms of self-mutation) is one of the most common concerns raised by parrot owners. I’ve encountered the problem among zoo birds as well. Despite being well-studied, feather plucking remains difficult to both prevent and cure. Our understanding is...

Hello! We have a sulphur crested cockatoo named Cocky. My dad has had him since he was 8, and Cocky is now 45 and still living happily with our family. He's not very tame, we can't handle him but he doesn't mind being scrathes or hugs every now and again (he adores my mum and my brother...